A Boca Raton man is accused of child neglect after failing to take his daughter, who suffers from Crohn's disease, to the doctor.

Eric Chelly, 40, was arrested Tuesday by Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputies at his home on the 7000 block of NE Seventh Avenue. Four months had passed since a doctor who examined the child as part of a Boca Raton police investigation determined she had life-threatening anemia and was taken to a hospital Intensive Care Unit, according to an arrest report.

The child needed treatments bimonthly, according to a doctor the child visited previously. A school nurse told police Chelly said he didn't have time or money for frequent doctor's visits.

When police spoke with Chelly, he said his insurance company dropped him in 2011 after his daughter had a 65-day hospital stay. He said he was trying to buy private insurance and was unaware of the severity of her condition.

Chelly, who faces charges of child neglect without great bodily harm, was released from the Palm Beach County Jail late Tuesday on a $3,000 bail.